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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Gangsta-Rap"”.
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Searching for a pragmatic aesthetic: the rhetorical strategies of gansta rappers -- myths, rituals, and dramas of an outlaw music
… are under attack from all political factions, rap music lies at the heart of their cultural epicenter. More specifically, Gangsta rap music has taken center stage, dominating the pop charts, moving from the streets of the ghetto to the homes of white suburbia. Studies of Gangsta rap messages …
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Thuggin' with the Oldies: Successful Professionals Who Continue to Listen to Gangsta Rap and the Professional Identity Conflict That Arises
<p>The rise of explicit rap music in the 1990's brought with it a challenge that has not been seen until today: what becomes of listeners who, once past their adolescent years, become responsible, successful adults yet choose to keep explicit rap music in their lives? This thesis examined that …
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Männlichkeits- und Weiblichkeitskonstruktionen deutschsprachiger Rapper/-innen
Gangsta-Rap ist besonders in Deutschland stark männlich dominiert und als Musikgenre kommerziell sehr erfolgreich. Er gilt als eine der wenigen Zonen bislang weitestgehend unbedrohter Männlichkeitsentwürfe. Die Ende des Jahres 2011 in Erscheinung getretene Gangsta-Rapperin Schwesta Ewa könnte …
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Workin’ Class Records: A Hip hop Subculture offering Hope and Resistance
… those involved in the Dublin scene to begin rapping. I will make it clear that there are different forms of rap, and different elements within hip hop. Namely commercial or (gangsta rap) and socially conscious rap. These distinctions are vital to gaining an appreciation of the cultural value …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
… erasure of fugitivity in pop versions of the gangsta-rap subgenre of trap music—a contemporary version of the sleight-of-hand necessary to reproduce slavery, as Harriet Jacobs showed in <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</em> (1861).</p> <p>Weaving together historical, political, and …
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Youth experience of deviant behaviour as portrayed in some television programmes: A Case Study of the Youth of Madonsi Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… of the youth to be heard. However, hip-hop, gangsta rap, R&B videos and some soap operas represent deviant behaviour in a fashionable manner. That the identity of young people is constructed by the portrayal of deviant behaviour in some television programme becomes a source of national …